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Amitav Ghosh at 2023 Voices on the Environment
Amitav Ghosh is the internationally-recognized author of The Calcutta Chromosome, The Glass Palace, The Nutmeg’s Curse, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the…
March 31, 2023
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Global Humanities Series “Understanding and Including Forced Migrants and Refugees: Responses from the Humanities”
On February 22, 2023, “Scholars and Migrants Working Together: Activism Across Borders” involved a conversation with two language and migration scholars who have been working…
March 28, 2023
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Humanities Faculty Work in Progress
In her talk “De-Cooptation of Russian Culture, Today or in the Past,” Professor Olga Meerson (Department of Slavic Languages) addressed internal opposition as the main…
March 24, 2023
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New Humanities Work in Global Justice Book Talks
As the first of a new series of Zoom book talks on “New Work in Global Justice,” on March 15, 2023, Georgetown Humanities welcomed Madhumita Lahiri (English and…
March 16, 2023
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Non-Academic Professional Opportunities for Humanities Ph.D. Students
A panel on February 1st, 2023, explored alternative careers in professional associations and federal agencies in education. Victoria Sams (Ph.D. in Comparative Literature,. …
March 2, 2023
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Georgetown Humanities Initiative Book Manuscript Workshop Grants
After featuring Professor Bradley Gorski in our Fall 2022 issue, we are now delighted to showcase another recipient of a GHI Book Manuscript Workshop Grant–Professor Amani…
January 20, 2023
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Global Humanities Seminar Series “Understanding and Including Forced Migrants and Refugees: Responses from the Humanities”
Thanks to a grant from the Office of the Vice President for Global Engagement, the Georgetown Humanities Initiative and the Initiative for Multilingual Studies organized the year…
December 16, 2022
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Professor Julia Watts Belser launches “Disability and Climate Change: A Public Archive Project”
We are thrilled to announce the completion of the first project sponsored by a Georgetown Humanities Initiative Booster Grant, sponsoring interdisciplinary humanistic research…
December 16, 2022
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Georgetown Humanities Initiative Junior Faculty Book Manuscript Workshops
With the aim of supporting the career development of humanities pre-tenure faculty members, the Georgetown Humanities Initiative has made grants available for Junior Faculty Book…
December 16, 2022
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Meet the 2022–23 HALC Fellows
The HALC Students Fellows Program is part of the Georgetown Humanities Initiative. Our collective goal is to understand and to enhance the potential of the Humanities: Arts,…
October 20, 2022